
There’s plenty of sex, as a new love interest – Love, sister of Forty, named by tennis-obsessed, loaded parents – comes into Joe’s sphere. If you don’t, they don’t learn anything.” “This, this is why you have to kill people. “It’s the little things that make you want to kill someone, the way Milo drinks Diet Dr Pepper and ties his Jewfro in a bun and lifts his shirt to show off his stomach and wipes his glasses down even though they’re not dirty.” Italics have rarely been used to such cutting effect. Along the way, he meets various people who get on the wrong side of him he’s also creatively caustic about the Angelenos he comes across, all “sick with aspirations” of fame.

Philip Roth would approve,” says Joe.īut Amy isn’t as in love with Joe as he thinks she robs him and scarpers to Los Angeles, not the best move when you’re dealing with a serial killer. He sets out to find her, forcing himself reluctantly into the world of Facebook and Tinder and Hollywood as he tries to track her down.

I’m not supposed to overstock a title, but I like fucking Amy near our yellow wall of books. I want to possess all the dark yellow copies ever made and keep them in the basement so that only Amy and I can touch them. “It’s one of our favourite books and we reread it together.
